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Saturday, September 6, 2014

Muslim and Leftist Aggressors Driving Jews from Europe

More Jews have left France for Israel so far this year than from any other country, a leading Jewish group said on Friday, blaming a "climate of anti-Semitism."

"France is today the leading country for Jewish emigration to Israel. It has never been before," said Ariel Kandel, head of the French office of the Jewish Agency for Israel.

He cited a "climate of anti-Semitism that is losing its taboo" as well as economic difficulties in France, which is suffering from zero growth and record high unemployment...

In addition to the largest Jewish diaspora in Europe, France is also home to the continent's biggest Muslim community, which is estimated at around five million...

Concerns have been raised by violent attacks on Jews, including the murders of a rabbi and three Jewish children by an al-Qaeda inspired gunman Mohammed Merah in 2012 in the southern city of Toulouse.

Are we supposed to believe it to be some big secret that the Arab-Muslim world is absolutely riddled with the most blood-curdling anti-Semitism? What's going on in Europe is that violently inclined anti-Jewish immigrant Muslims are driving Jews off of that continent and doing it with the complicity and encouragement of our friends in the progressive-left.

If Europe's Muslims tend to harass the Jewish minority there, they do it with the encouragement of western "liberals" who believe that Arabs and Muslims have every right to harass, if not murder, Jews, due to Israel's allegedly bad behavior. Of course, no good "progressive" would ever explicitly say that Arabs have every right to kill Jews. Instead, they will simply cite chapter and verse of alleged Jewish crimes against Arabs in cold and biased tones and then simply let things take their natural course.

It is pointless to suggest that Jews in France are innocent of anything that Israel has done to defend itself. Most European Jews would never dream of insulting their Arab neighbors by doing anything so aggressive and drastic as defending oneself or one's children.

For the most part, but not entirely, diaspora Jews are not big believers in self-defense. They believe in defending others, true, but themselves, not so much. This being the case, western-progressives provide the necessary justification for violence against those Jews by inciting hatred not merely against Israelis, but against "Zionists," more generally.

If there are too few Israelis in Paris to chase down with rocks, there are other Jewish families that work just fine as proxies. If a young Muslim Jihadi in-training has yet to make it to Karachi, Pakistan, or northern Iraq, he can start practicing in England or France or Sweden on whatever victims that are available. If Jews are available for attack, so much the better.

But the main thing racist Jihadis require from western progressives is the kinds of justifications that will resonate with other westerners and liberals. Thus fourteen centuries of Koranically-based Jew Hatred and thirteen centuries of persecution within the oppressive system of dhimmitude gets veiled by anti-Zionist Edward Saidian gibberish concerning the "white imperialist oppressors" of the innocent "indigenous" population.

With the merest sleight of the hand, thirteen centuries of Jewish second and third class non-citizenship under the boot of Arab-Muslim colonial rule simply goes poof. All context disappears and is replaced by a fantasy of Jewish militarism following World War II. Arab genocidal intentions toward the Jews directly after the Holocaust are also entirely whitewashed out of existence by western progressives who honestly - but, falsely - believe that they stand for social justice.

Have you ever wondered how it happened that the western world turned its back against the Jews during the Holocaust? The answer is that they did not turn their back on the Jews during the Holocaust. On the contrary, they turned their backs on the Jews prior to the Holocaust as the Nazis were developing the process of defamation that would ultimately justify the violence itself.

The conditions that led to the Holocaust are obviously not in place in today's world. Instead we have other conditions, but two things remain the same. The first is the violent hatred of a large hostile majority population and the second is the justification given for that violence by ethically-bankrupt western intellectuals and ignorant, but idealistic, political activists.

When western intellectuals and writers and journalists and, yes, bloggers, defame and denigrate Israel as a racist, imperialist, colonialist, apartheid state, they project lies grounded in willful distortions, wild exaggerations, and unjustifiable malice.

The result is the whipping up of hatred not only toward Israeli Jews, but to all Jews, everywhere, including Paris.

In the Jewish diaspora community and Israel, the alarm was palpable. “Time to go?” asked Shmuel Trigano rhetorically about France. Why? Not only because once again, people killed and sought to kill Jews in the streets of Europe, but because the news media continually played down the amplitude of the violence and hatred, and the authorities, both police and judiciary, resisted it half-heartedly. In France, as in England, anti-Semites no longer hide; unafraid of police, they roam the streets like the brown shirts of yore. Is this the “beginning of the end” of a two-millennia-long Jewish presence in Europe?

The New York Observer real estate section ran a piece recently about a new flood of wealthy French Jews emigrating to NYC to snap up luxury dwellings. In a replay of the the 1930's the first ones to leave are the ones that can afford to pull and bolt.

Well, that's a shame. Israel could use both the dough and the numbers.

My suspicion is that over the coming decade we are going to see the slow drip drip drip of Jews making for greener pasteurs.

Islam is on the rise in Europe and, despite sweet cooing sounds about the "Golden Age of Isam," was never friendly toward Jews.

Part of the reason that the progressive-left Jewish professoriate can be a problem is because they hold out hope for interfaith relations. It's all very admirable and adult-like, but it also inclines them to gloss over Muslim historical abuse of the Jewish people in that part of the world.

Barack Obama on the so-called "Arab Spring" (May 19, 2011):

"There are times in the course of history when the actions of ordinary citizens spark movements for change because they speak to a longing for freedom that has been building up for years. In America, think of the defiance of those patriots in Boston who refused to pay taxes to a King, or the dignity of Rosa Parks as she sat courageously in her seat."

The "Arab Spring" was the brutal rise of political Islam in the Middle East and this is what Obama compares the Civil Rights Movement to?

The Fundamental Argument:

The progressive movement, and the activist base of the Democratic Party, creates and supports venues that demonize and defame the Jewish state, thereby also creating hatred toward the Jewish people.

Such venues include political journals, such as, but not limited to, Daily Kos, the Huffington Post, and the UK Guardian, numerous universities throughout the United States and Europe, various NGOs with an anti-Israel agenda, and the entire progressive-left movement to boycott, divest from, and sanction (BDS) the Jewish people of the state of Israel.

These venues and organizations do not generally criticize Israel, but dehumanize that country.

For this reason, among others, the progressive movement, and the activist base of the Democratic Party, undermines the well-being and safety of Jews around the world, sometimes resulting in violence toward us.

Therefore, as a matter of common sense and basic human decency, Jews should leave the progressive movement and the Democratic Party as we seek to build alternative political structures that are not home to toxic anti-Semitic anti-Zionists, who would see us robbed of self-determination and self-defense.

What You Can't Discuss:

This is a partial list of taboo topics within progressive-left venues around the Arab-Israel conflict. You cannot discuss this material because it undermines the "Palestinian narrative" of perpetual victimhood. This narrative is a club used by the Arab and Muslim enemies of Israel, along with their western progressive allies, to delegitimize that country in preparation for its eventual dissolution.

1) The centuries of Jewish dhimmitude under the boot of Islamic imperialism.

2) The recent construction of Palestinian identity, its connection to Soviet Cold War politics, and how this is an Arab people with a Roman name that refers to Greeks.

3) Arab and Palestinian Koranically-based racism as the fundamental source of the conflict.

4) The ways in which contemporary progressive anti-Zionism serves as a cloak for gross anti-Semitism.

5) The Palestinian theft and appropriation of Jewish history.

6) "Pallywood."

7) The historical connections between the Nazis, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Palestinian national movement.

8) The perpetual refusal of the Palestinian-Arabs to accept a state for themselves in peace next to the Jewish one.

9) The progressive portrayal of terrorists as those fighting a righteous war of "resistance."

10) The Arab-Palestinian indoctrination of children with Jew hatred.

11) Human rights violations against women, children, and Gay people in the Muslim Middle East.

12) The fact that violent Jihadis call themselves "Jihadis" and claim to love death above life.

This is only a partial list, so please let us know the many more that we are missing.

Quote of the Whenever:

It is not that most progressives are anti-Semitic. They aren't. It's that they don't get it, they don't care, and they very much want you to shut the fuck up. - Michael Lumish